Hey. It's really annoying that the leaderboards sort in a strange way that some ranks are missing. This is particularly annoying for games with many tied times, like Dragster - https://www.speedrun.com/Dragster . Are there any chances of getting this fixed, so the rank order would be 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. instead of showing, for example, 5th place after 1st place?

ffzthinkwithPortals I mean, the people who are 5th still have 4 people "in front" of them, so to speak - it makes sense if you get behind the meaning of being in a particular place.

If you try to put this up to personal preference, I for one like the current way of "sorting" the leaderboard.

Either way, introducing an option in the user settings would probably be most appropriate for this issue, so people like you can have their 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. instead of the current way.

~HDK

Wouldn't that just show up as:

1st place: 1st place: 1st place: 2nd place: 2nd place: 2nd place: 2nd place: 2nd place: 2nd place: 2nd place: etc.

This doesn't really seem intuitive to me.

If 3 people are tied for first, and 7 people have the second best possible score (and are thus, tied for 4th or "2nd"), then for each of the seven people, there are 3 people with a better score than you.

If three people are ahead of you, you are fourth. The fact that the three people ahead of you are tied doesn't mean there aren't still three people ahead of you. That would be like racing Formula 1; but one driver who is fourth suddenly becomes second place because the three cars ahead of him cross the finish line at the same time.

I say this as the person who is literally in last place in Dragster, so I really have no skin in the game here.

Yeah the rankings on the site are correct.

If there are four people tied for first, then the next person is in 5th place. That's how it works.

[quote]That would be like racing Formula 1; but one driver who is fourth suddenly becomes second place because the three cars ahead of him cross the finish line at the same time. [/quote] That actually makes sense. Thanks for clarifying - it just seemed strange for me, because this way of ranking sometimes makes it hard to find out how many people are ahead of you, especially for popular categories with many tied times. But, as I found out, that's a legit way of ranking - for a person who doesn't watch sports it was kind of difficult :)

No problem. Yea, I could see the confusion their, especially for a game like Dragster, where it's like the top 3 times are super specific possibilities. Most games are don't have the 30 fps under 7 second clock thing going on, so the chances of it being an issue in most instances would be really unlikely.